On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:02:44PM -0000, Andrew Watson wrote: > I am a new user to wireshark so know very little... the reason I was advised > to try wireshark was due to intremittent problems with my webserver whereby > (usually) the first page request fails with an error message (the connection > was reset in firefox)... I have managed to capture this behaviour in > wireshark when requesting the site and I it lookes like step numbers 5 & 6 > below (also attached as pcap file) are the actual errors ( TCP http > > 2058 [RST] Seq=1 Len=0 ) >
I tried the website myself and got the same error on the first try. After the first request, I can't seem to get the error back. > I am hoping that someone can confirm that this is the problem and perhaps > suggest what I can do to track down the cause? The webserver is running > Apache 2.0.52 on CentOS4... > Indeed the TCP-RST that you see in frame 5&6 are responsible for the message in Firefox. It tells you that the server (or maybe a load-balancer of firewall in front of the server) does not accept the http-request you sent it and so it resets the connection. Is your server hosted at a provider of do you host it on your own server? Cheers, Sake _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list Wireshark-users@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users